1Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, Università della Tuscia, Largo dell’ Università SNC, Viterbo, Italy
2Université Paris-Cité and Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, UMR Stabilité Génétique Cellules Souches et Radiations, LREV/iRCM/IBFJ, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
3Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, UMR Stabilité Génétique Cellules Souches et Radiations, LREV/iRCM/IBFJ, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
4Telomeres and Telomerase Group, Molecular Oncology Program, Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
5Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari”, Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
6Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
7Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy
8Stem Cell Technologies, Cambridge, UK
9Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
10Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
11Istituto Pasteur Italia, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Rome, Italy
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